Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> writes: >> > "UnifiedLinuxDriver" indicates a package downloaded from >> > >> > http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/ >> > >> > But there is no version 1.02 offered by this site, See here >> > >> > http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/suld.html >> > >> > Copying the PPD and filter is ok. But what file did you copy them from? >> > UnifiedLinuxDriver_1.02.tar.gz is not offered by the bchemnet.com site. >> > >> > Have you got that, too. The file you say you downloaded does not exist >> > at bchemnet.com as far as I can see. >> >> >> I downloaded - years ago, when I bought the printer - from: >> >> http://www.samsung.com > > You were asked from where you got the package a couple of mails ago. I > should have insisted you answer rather than guessing from a file name. > > Your best strategy is to download the latest package from Samsung > instead of using something ancient.
>From Samsung web site I don't find that package... > Alternatively, changing > > *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 rastertosamsungspl" > > to > > *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-raster 0 rastertosamsungspl" > > just might work. Unfortunately, it doesn't... >> . With those two files, the printer had always worked fine with Debian. >> Now I installed Debian on a new machine, and the printer won't print. >> Strange because the old machine, where the printer still does work, *also* >> has Debian Sid, the same operating system I have on my new Lenovo AMD A6 >> Desktop. >> >> >> > Whatever package you are using is expecting rastertosamsungspl to process >> > PostScript. As its name implies, it will only process raster data. CUPS >> > will not like this line. >> > >> > Please post >> > >> > cat Samsung_ML-191x_252x_Series.ppd | grep cupsFilter >> > >> > for the machine which prints for you. Check the PPD file name in >> > /etc/cups.ppd first. >> >> >> Here it is: >> >> *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 rastertosamsungspl" >> >> , but exactly the same output also comes from Lenovo machine, where the >> printer >> won't work... So I think there must be some other different special reason >> because one is ok and the other is not although the system is the same on >> both. > > I very much doubt the filtering on both machines is identical. The > error_log you posted for the non-working machine had > > D [07/Mar/2017:14:35:23 +0000] [Job 1] Started filter > /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf (PID 4741) > D [07/Mar/2017:14:35:23 +0000] [Job 1] Started filter > /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops (PID 4742) > D [07/Mar/2017:14:35:23 +0000] [Job 1] Started filter > /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungspl > > PostScript is being produced. There is no pstoraster filter in unstable's > cups-filters package to give raster data to rastertosamsungspl. > > Please run > > cupsfilter --list-filters -p /etc/cups/ppd/<ML-191x_ppd> -m printer/foo > <input> -e > out.prn 2> log > > on both machines. A PDF or a text file would do for <input>. Post the > two logs you get. I suppose you mean something like: # cupsfilter --list-filters -p /etc/cups/ppd/Samsung_ML-191x_252x_Series.ppd -m printer/foo <input> -e > out.prn 2> log , but what in place of `printer/foo' and <input>? Thanks, Rodolfo
